Impact of industrialization on recreation: Parks and Playgrounds Flashcards
migration of workers from countryside coupled with the arrival of immigrants from overseas had what type of impact on living situations
placed an enormous strain on living conditions that municipal governments struggled to manage
white middle and upper class urban canadians began to view nature as a cure for what
ill effects of urban industrial life and as a way to safeguard public morality through ordered and rational outdoor activities
organized sports were designed to compensate for what
loss of natural opportunities for outdoor PA
youth organizations adopted the Back to nature movement as particularly relevant to what
their work of citizenship training and character formation
health benefits of parks, paygrounds and outdoor recreation were not onyl physical but what
moral
-imbued with the spirit of rational recreation (belief that humans can be improved by purposeful, disciplined recreation)
from a rational recreation view, PA had to be what
rational - serve a larger purpose
what was respectability int erms of PA
social reformers promoted activities that fostered what were perceived ro be respectiable, christian, heteronormative, middle class values
what are 3 examples of respeactibility actiivites and instiutions that were established
the Muscular Christianity Movement
YM/WCA and Boy Scouts institutions
for white middle upper class women, fishing in the wilderness offered what
a partial reprieve from the Victorian ideiology of seperate spheres that sought to keep them confined to a private domestic world
for white middle and upper class males fishing procieds opportunitiy for what
to venture into nature to hunt offered a chance to reclaim a sense of masculinity that was perceived to be eroding modern urban industrial life
by early 1880s, clubs such as Montreal Bicycle CLube provided young middle class men the opportunity to what
demonstrate thier manliness and social status
for swimming, who was most affected by the deteriorating water quality
working class children who had to deal with both citys attempt to control their recreation and continually declining quality of their favourite summer playground
The winnipeg industrial exposition was a precursor to todays what
Red River Exhibition
the winnipeg indurstrial exposition had what as early as 1905
5-mile race
In Winnipeg and Manitob in the 1870s, there was land being designated for parks during what
real estate boom
